As a successful prime contractor or engineer, getting the project started right is essential to profitable project completion. Installing your underground utilities via directional drilling allows you to be sensitive to businesses disrupted by COVID. Directional Technologies installs underground utilities…
By Tomas Will, Sr. Environmental Scientist When faced with replacing a remediation system at a military base, a consultant was tasked with selecting the best alternative to replace the aging system. The existing system, which had been in operation for…
Here’s how an experienced consultant solved longstanding challenges and frustrations with a live remediation project that also highlights why some of the best in the industry turn to horizontal wells when they need a solution that performs better and more…
By Tomas Will, Sr. Environmental Scientist Background and Setting The consultant was hired to help a large industrial facility deal with a groundwater contaminant plume that was spread over a wide area and was migrating toward a nearby surface water….
Horizontal soil sampling and immediate analysis of the samples were used to determine the optimal placement of horizontal wells; both the soil sampling and the horizontal well installation were completed within hours of each other. Directional Technologies recently accomplished this…
By Kyle Carlton, PG, Senior Geologist, Directional Technologies The limitations of angled wells leave many environmental consultants frustrated. Angled drilling has its place for gaining access under some types surface infrastructure but using horizontal wells instead of angled wells provides…
The Australasian Land and Groundwater Association, ALGA, recognized Pedro Balbachevsky, AECOM, and his team, Directional Technologies and Matrix Drilling, for the 2018 Outstanding Innovation Award for Australia’s 1st Installation of Horizontal Wells for ISCO and Biosparging. Challenged with remediation of…
Authors: Dave Forse, CPG, FPM Remediations, Inc. and Kyle Carlton, PG, Directional Technologies, Inc. Introduction: How do you remediate beneath an active airport taxiway without interfering with commercial airliners and United States Air Force cargo planes taxiing through your work…
By: Kyle J. Carlton, PG, Senior Geologist In 1993, the environmental industry lacked the ability to cost-efficiently access areas beyond the reach of traditional vertical drilling techniques. Faced with the urgent need to remediate beneath an active runway at John…
By: Kyle Carlton, PG, Senior Geologist To avoid costly business interruption and site disturbance, Ganesh Kurse with G & RK Consulting Associates, recommended a non-invasive remedial approach by installing horizontal ozone sparge wells with directional drilling techniques. Although horizontal ozone…